For more than two decades medieval folk rock duo Blackmore’s Night has been performing its unique blend of rock meets medieval folk on authentic period instruments. The band is led by husband and wife ...

A mechanical string instrument from the Middle Ages that can still evoke chills today... With a few turns on a hurdy-gurdy’s hand crank, a rosined wheel sweeps against the instrument’s three main ...

Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir (MWC), the only large volunteer choral group in the U.S. and Europe dedicated to performing medieval music, rings in the holiday season with a program titled “Natus ...

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You probably awoke today not knowing you live in the city "of the lute," a stringed instrument of medieval origins. "Duluth" means "of the lute" in French. This city's name speaks of an instrument ...

Musician Ethan James, whose career spanned the psychedelic 1960s to the punk 1980s and ended as a performer of medieval folk music, has died. He was 56. Mr. James, who moved back to San Francisco ...

Charli XCX is trading in a microphone for a medieval string instrument in the new teaser trailer for the upcoming film 100 Nights of Hero. The first teaser for the film dropped on Tuesday, and though ...